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News.com.au
2 hours ago
- News.com.au
‘Rural Tasmania': Tasmanian Nationals rule out Coalition with state Liberal Party just days ahead of election
The Tasmanian Nationals have confirmed they will not enter a Coalition agreement with the state Liberal Party, just days ahead of voters heading to the ballot box. Tasmanians will vote on July 19 for the fourth time in seven years, after a snap election was called following a no-confidence motion was granted. But the Tasmanian Liberal Party has now suffered a major setback – with the Nationals ruling out speculation they will automatically help Jeremy Rockliff in his bid to remain as Premier. Nationals candidate for Lyons John Tucker said he wanted to clear up any voter confusion ahead of next week's election. 'The Tasmanian Nationals do not have any agreement for a Coalition, nor supply with the Tasmanian Liberals. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false.' Mr Tucker said. Miriam Beswick and Andrew Jenner also say neither they, nor the Tasmanian Nationals, were locked in to provide support to the Tasmanian Liberals for the next term of parliament. 'I want to assure the voters in Braddon, as well as in Bass and Lyons, should any party find themselves in a position to form a minority Government, we will only discuss these matters once the whole picture has become clear.' Mrs Beswick said. Mr Jenner reiterated he would 'not offer support or supply' to 'another Mr Rockliff-style Liberal government' without a shift in their approach for the state's rural areas. Last month, Mr Rockliff lost a no-confidence motion by just one vote after two days of fiery debate – sparking a move to dissolve the parliament. Governor Barbara Baker granted approval for the election a day after Mr Rockliff made the request in order to end the state's political deadlock. She said she was 'satisfied that there is no real possibility that an alternative government can be formed'. In a statement, released in June, the Governor said she would dissolve parliament and issue the writ for an election on July 19. 'Notwithstanding the recent 2024 election, the public interest in avoiding the cost of another election and the prevailing public mood against holding an election, I have granted Premier Rockliff a dissolution,' Governor Baker said.
ABC News
3 hours ago
- ABC News
Aussie jobs on agenda for PM's China trip
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is preparing to meet with China's leaders over a six-day trip, which he says he'll use to boost economic ties and build job opportunities for Australia.
ABC News
7 hours ago
- ABC News
ADF watches for Chinese spy ships monitoring Talisman Sabre exercises as PM heads to Shanghai
As Prime Minister Anthony Albanese heads north to China for a week-long visit, Australia's defence force says it is watching for Chinese spy vessels heading south. Defence has confirmed it expects Chinese surveillance vessels to monitor the biannual Talisman Sabre war games taking place off the Queensland and Northern Territory coastlines in the coming weeks. The Chinese military has sent surveillance ships to the past four Talisman Sabre exercises, and a Defence spokesperson says it is likely to happen again. "It would not be unusual or unexpected for China to monitor Exercise Talisman Sabre 2025, as it has during previous iterations of this exercise," it said. "Defence monitors all traffic in our maritime approaches." The Talisman Sabre exercises, which officially begin tomorrow, will involve more than 30,000 defence personnel from 19 different countries. It is the largest bilateral exercise between the Australian and United States militaries. During the 2023 war games, a high-tech Chinese spy ship was positioned off the Queensland coast, possibly as far south as Shoalwater Bay, trying to collect sensitive information on the exercises. In 2021 two Chinese surveillance ships monitored the joint exercises, and in 2019 a Chinese vessel stayed just outside Australian territorial waters throughout much of the event. The anticipated arrival of a Chinese military vessel off the Australian coastline for this year's games comes at the same time as Mr Albanese leaves for a six-day trip to China, with trade ties and security tensions both on the agenda. The prime minister will fly into the commercial metropolis of Shanghai on Saturday before heading to Beijing and Chengdu next week. The centrepiece of the visit will be annual talks with China's Premier Li Qiang in Beijing next week — but Mr Albanese will use the Shanghai leg to talk up Australia's economic and sporting links with China. The prime minister is expected to meet with former Socceroo Kevin Muscat, who is managing local soccer team Shanghai Port FC, along with a host of other Australians working for the club. After that, he will visit the Shanghai headquarters of the massive online travel service company which is one of the main portals used by Chinese tourists coming to Australia. While the prime minister will use the trip to bolster the booming trade links between Australia and China, Shadow Foreign Minister Michaelia Cash said on Friday that Mr Albanese should also raise the government's concerns about the live-fire exercises that the Chinese navy conducted earlier in the Tasman Sea this year. "We see China as an important partner and we seek respectful engagement with the Chinese government and its people,'' Senator Cash said. "But that respect must go both ways. "Earlier this year all Australians saw the reports of the Chinese Communist Party's navy ships circumnavigating Australia." "The way that circumnavigation occurred was not respectful. Mr Albanese should be raising the issue with his Chinese counterparts when he visits China."
